[skwaw-root, -roo
t] 
| 1. | a fleshy, leafless plant, Conopholis americana, of the broomrape family, native to eastern North America, having a stout, yellowish, conelike stalk of lipped flowers, and growing in clusters, esp. under oaks. |
| 2. | the blue cohosh. |
| squaw root | |
noun | |
| tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally [syn: blue cohosh] |